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[Jessi]

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Glad® compostable bags provide quality and strength you can depend on. And you can feel good knowing that these bags are made with approximately 40% vegetable-based materials so they disintegrate at compost facilities. For use in municipal compost programs, where applicable.

I couldn't find a topic about these elsewhere, but maybe I missed it.

Has anybody seen these in their area? Or have you tried them out?

http://www.glad.com/...mpostable-bags/

Apparently they're really good for being able to gather your own compost if you live inside an apartment, etc.

[mariaandrea]

Hmm, I'll have to do some digging on those. I haven't seen them, but then I haven't looked for them. Right now we just put our food waste in paper bags I get at the grocery store. I take canvas bags, but usually make sure I need one paper bag to bring home as well. The bag and food waste go in our yard waste bin, so it works well. I'll have to look up whether or not our compost program allows those bags. The sad thing is though, based on another thread here, it sounds like not very many cities have a compost program.

[jasserEnv]

We tried using these as our city waste collection accepts them within the composting bins. However, we found that they are definitely not ready for prime time. They were dribbling and leaking for us with two separate brands. so we went back to our old approach of using a small plastic bag in the house and then transfering the contents of the plastic bag into a cellulose lined bag n the morning that compost is picked up. This seems to work best for us. I would be curious if anyone else has better luck.

[Hayden]

Thanks for sharing this.

Saw them in Walmart. A little on the pricey side but that understandable for now. What we need is coupons for this stuff. Any useful coupon links?

[Jessi]

Hayden, on 01 February 2012 - 05:09 PM, said:

Thanks for sharing this.

Saw them in Walmart. A little on the pricey side but that understandable for now. What we need is coupons for this stuff. Any useful coupon links?

I haven't seen any coupons, but conveniently/coincidentally enough, I did run across this giveaway earlier:

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I have a Glad Composting Kit to send to one, randomly selected, lucky reader. It contains:

• Your own handy green "Odour Free" composting bucket
  
• A box of 20 Glad Compostable Bags for the bucket
  
• A small, easy to read book on the ins & outs of composting
  
• A sunflower growing kit

http://www.squashedm...-york-city.html

I don't want to spend the money on the bags, but to win a set of the bags and a compost bucket and brochure would be really cool. The giveaway ends on February 5th, just so people know when this post becomes irrelevant and outdated. Good luck if you enter!

[zararina]

I have not seen such product yet in our markets here and doubt if its already available here in our country.
I just reuse the plastic bags I got from shopping/buying things as thrash bags than just throw those away. Very few stores are using paper bags but there are initiative already of changing those plastic bag to paper. And also better if we could bring reusable shopping bags with us.

[greenking]

This product looks really interesting. I will try this one of these days for sure =)

[visionrafael84]

Living in San Francisco we are legally obligated to compost and we currently use compost bags (of another brand) They are weak and they do sweat, but they work and if you have a charcoal filtered bin no smell ever comes out.

[Hysssss-teria]

The US Navy doesn’t allow composting in their residential neighborhoods. However, they do equip each townhouse with a garbage disposal, and they insist that we use them for compostable kitchen waste.

The concept of those bags does appear to be a viable option for those who can compost, however. While I haven’t seen them yet, I haven’t looked because I don’t buy Glad products -- we only use the cheap or free stuff around here.

[Jessi]

Hysssss-teria, on 06 March 2012 - 12:03 PM, said:

The US Navy doesn’t allow composting in their residential neighborhoods. However, they do equip each townhouse with a garbage disposal, and they insist that we use them for compostable kitchen waste.

That's an interesting way to go about it. I do miss my garbage disposal so very much. I used to use it pretty much daily, it seemed, and it took care of a fair bit that didn't have to go straight into the trash otherwise. It's not that we'd waste much food, but there's a certain amount of "scrap" like when you're peeling potatoes, carrots, etc, that does have to go somewhere.

[visionrafael84]

For those who are willing to get a bit out of there way, some grocery stores will allow you to bring in your compost so they can take care of it, instead of just tossing them away.

[rbaker_59]

Jessi, on 06 March 2012 - 08:17 PM, said:

That's an interesting way to go about it. I do miss my garbage disposal so very much. I used to use it pretty much daily, it seemed, and it took care of a fair bit that didn't have to go straight into the trash otherwise. It's not that we'd waste much food, but there's a certain amount of "scrap" like when you're peeling potatoes, carrots, etc, that does have to go somewhere.

Speaking of vegetable waste, my grandmother always said the vitamins and nutrients in vegetables are right under the skin, so if you peel them, it takes away the things the body needs from them. Potatoes can be washed and boiled whole. After they are done and cool, the skin will usually peel right off. Other vegetables that get cooked, like carrots, can be done the same way. I also gives less waste to have to put somewhere.

[Jessi]

rbaker_59, on 14 March 2012 - 07:59 AM, said:

Speaking of vegetable waste, my grandmother always said the vitamins and nutrients in vegetables are right under the skin, so if you peel them, it takes away the things the body needs from them. Potatoes can be washed and boiled whole. After they are done and cool, the skin will usually peel right off. Other vegetables that get cooked, like carrots, can be done the same way. I also gives less waste to have to put somewhere.

Good point. With potatoes, I don't even bother peeling them or sliding the skin off later either. We just eat them often times so no waste at all. I can't -always- do that, but it is an easy way to cut down on the waste in general and simply consume the food whole. So long as you clean it well, it's all good.

[hunysukle]

It's about time Glad started manufacturing compostable trash bags. Too bad there's still billions of non-compostable trash bags sitting in landfills, and they will for thousands of years. I definitely plan to purchase these "green" trash bags in the near future.